Cobble Hill’s community board is reigniting its long-smoldering campaign to reopen the neighborhood’s old firehouse ahead of a population boom — but first it must rekindle a fire inside Mayor DeBlasio!

Hizzoner was famously arrested alongside local actor and former firefighter Steve Buscemi while protesting the closure of Engine 204 back in 2003, and members of Community Board 6 are hoping they can bring him on board by reawakening that white-hot passion for Brownstone Brooklyn’s Bravest.

“If the mayor was willing to allow himself to be arrested for a cause that was close to his heart and important to our community, he might take a fresh look at this issue now that there’s even more justification for bringing back a firehouse,” said the panel’s district manager Craig Hammerman.

Getting the DeGraw Street station up and running again is the board’s top request for the city’s recent 2018 budget — although the community’s desire to bring it back has never died down entirely since Mayor Bloomberg axed the firehouse as a cost-cutting measure 14 years ago.

If Hammerman can just sit down with DeBlasio to plead the community’s case, he is positive he can set the blaze in the mayor’s belly alight once again.

“I’ve been pestering the mayor’s office and they’ve been unable to get us any kind of response whatsoever,” he said. “It’s frustrating because we do believe that this issue is important to DeBlasio personally and if we can get to him he might actually have a strong opinion on the matter.”

But DeBlasio’s ears aren’t burning. City Hall declined to comment and redirected questions to the Fire Department, which said there are no plans to reopen the station anytime soon as the need just isn’t there, and claimed response times of nearby trucks are faster than most in the city — although the agency refused to give exact figures.

And a local city-planning expert reluctantly agrees that modern advances in fire safety means 204 just isn’t needed anymore.

“I was one of the people who cried when they closed 204,” said Cobble Hill resident David Burney, a professor at Pratt Institute and the city’s former design and construction commissioner, who fondly remembers walking by Engine 204 with his kids and watching the firemen wash their trucks. “But we don’t really need a firehouse there. The old brownstone firehouses were built in the days before there were sprinklers and fire-safety precautions.”

Buscemi’s people did not return requests for comment.

Reach reporter Lauren Gill at lgill@cnglocal.com or by calling (718) 260–2511. Follow her on Twitter @laurenk_gill

Reasonable discourse

It was called 2 0 snore because it had so few runs. With the fire department responding to allow.most every suspected heart attack along with an ambulance they would have more now.

Feb. 10, 2017, 9:09 am

F. Lee Bailey from California says:

If your goal is to see diBlasio get arrested then I suspect you'll see that. But it wont be over a fire house closing.

Feb. 10, 2017, 5:36 pm

Not Goish from Prospect Heights says:

Fake arrest. Fake story. FAKE NEWS! Sad.

Feb. 10, 2017, 6:59 pm

Jim from Cobble Hill says:

Better to have it and not need it than need it and not have it.

Feb. 11, 2017, 9:35 am

James from Bensonhurst says:

Just proves all these DeBalsio is a hypocrite . Thats not news.Text NGINEER to 22333

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Spread the message to family and friends and help these deserving inner city children

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Feb. 11, 2017, 12:01 pm

Helene from Cobble Hill says:

That b-hole (the mayor), will say anything at anytime as long as he smells personal gain out of it. He doesn't mean 90% of what flies out of his over-sized pie hole.

Feb. 12, 2017, 3:42 pm

AA from Carroll Gardens says:

Sell it. Not needed. Generate money for the city vs. sitting vacant......

Feb. 13, 2017, 5:32 pm

Joe from Downtown says:

deBlasio getting arrested? That's the joke. He did that for the hospital all the while he and Brad Lander were working on their "other plans" to kill the hospital and take the money for their campaigns, ruining the lives of patients and nurses alike. Then you have the "fake" cobble hill association - that couldn't find their way to protect their own community from over development. Pathetic, all. Hammerman, too.

Feb. 14, 2017, 10:05 am

Kurt Hill from Northside Williamsburg says:

Engine Company 212 in Northside Williamsburg should be brought back, too! Perhaps as a high-rise/high pressure engine unit specializing in high-rise building firefighting, given all the new development here. It's time for the people of New York to start demanding more for the 99.9%. We've subsidized the super-rich for too long.

Kurt HillNorthside Williamsburg

Feb. 21, 2017, 12:40 pm

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